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How i feel after removing all the bloat from my system (i own a mac and deleted my downloads folder)

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How can you use a mac? It feels like a really unoptimised gnome, and your keyboard is all messed up

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You know I’m something of a sysadmin myself

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Omg, me too. 🫂

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Welcome to the business!

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Holly heavens! You have created something I couldn’t even see in my most enlightened visions

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Back when disk compressors (Stacker, DoubleSpace, and such) were a thing I was cleaning my 85MB hard drive to make space for some games, found some massive file I wasn’t using, and promptly deleted it, which did indeed free a lot of space.

Way too much, in fact.

Turns out DriveSpace or whatever Stacker clone Microsoft had built into DOS somehow exposed the file in which it stored the compressed file system within the compressed system itself, allowing the user to delete it if they were stupid enough. So, when I deleted it, hilarity ensued.

In the end I think I was somehow able to recover the drive by booting from a floppy and using undelete or something like that, but it was a learning experience to say the least.

Damn, I miss those good old times.

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That was what happened to our data on the “family computer”. My parents were not happy with me that day.

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